Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected

This monumental report explores the disproportionate impact of zero tolerance policies and the criminalization of school discipline on Black girls and other girls of color.

Against the backdrop of the surveillance, punishment, and criminalization of youth of color in the United States, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected seeks to increase awareness of the gendered consequences of disciplinary and push-out policies for girls of color, and, in particular, Black girls. The report developed out of a critical dialogue about the various ways that women and girls of color are channeled onto pathways that lead to underachievement and criminalization.